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South Heart (ND) Informal Conference June 28, 7pm in Dickinson

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The Color Purple…

is not what you want to see in your water. Our friends at the Center for Rural Affairs recently reported in their newsletter about a livestock confinement (the A.J. Bos mega-dairy’s silage leachate pond, to be precise) west of Nora, … Continue reading

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What Land Is Like After Mining Reclamation

One of the big mysteries in many western coal strip mining regions is how long the land will take to recover. According to the Bureau of Land Management’s 2003 Environmental Impact Statement for a South Powder River Basin coal lease … Continue reading

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